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23'- a Ib. Paid
For Rabbit Skins;
World Recorsd
WELLINGTON (N.Z.).-World
record prices for rabbit skins
were paid at a Duncdin sale to
day. The price for best-grade
skins ranged to 17/10 a lb. for
does and 18/2 for bucks, and as
high as 18/6 for colored varieties.
This represents only 80 per-cent,
of the money paid by buyers.
A Government levy on winter
skins, used to subsidise summer
trapping, is added to auction
prices, and buyers paid a top
price of 23/14 a lb.
Seventy-four tons of skins
were auctioned. After World
War I. prices for best skins
reached a peak of 20/6, but there
was no levy.
[Average price at ~ds week's
Adelaide sale was 7/7 a lb.,
highest (for a very small quan
tiny) being 14/2.1]
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